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posted by takyon on Tuesday July 28 2015, @10:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the wait-until-they-find-out-some-search-results-are-advertisements dept.

A satellite broadcasting company called Outernet wants to bring all this content many of us take for granted to the estimated 3 billion people without internet access. That catch is that, in order to get content to as many people as possible efficiently and cheaply, Outernet's connection goes only one way.

"We want to solve the information access problem as quickly as possible," Outernet co-founder and CEO Syed Karim says.

Outernet sells a simple gadget called the Lighthouse that can connect to a satellite dish and download—but not upload—information such as Wikipedia entries, public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, news, crop prices and more. The device doubles as a Wi-Fi hub, so that users can connect to it and download or browse text on their own devices. You can also build a Lighthouse-style receiver yourself, using the company's open source software and instructions. The service is free, and anyone with the proper equipment can pick up Outernet's broadcasts.

Yay, a new device to capture the spending power of the 3 billion humans who live on less than $2 per day.

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  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday July 28 2015, @01:39PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 28 2015, @01:39PM (#214832)

    Think of it like like radio except for wikipedia.

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